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>> Hey friends, I'm
Scott Hanselman and
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this is another episode
of Azure Friday.
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I'm here with Amber Bhargava
and we're talking
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about the new Azure
free accounts.
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>> That's right.
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>> I remember
the very first time that I
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signed up for
Azure free account.
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If I remember, I got
a couple of hundred dollars
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and then I converted
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it eventually to a
Pay-as-you-go account.
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>> Yeah. So as you said Scott,
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we used to have
the Azure free trial offer,
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that used to offer $200
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created for the first 30 days
to our new Azure customers.
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>> Okay.
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>> Now, it was a good offer and
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we got positive response
from the customers.
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But as we started launching
more and more Azure services,
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the feedback that we got
from the customers was,
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"I need more time to try
out Azure, to know Azure."
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That's the reason we
created Azure free account.
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So the Azure free account,
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it's a new offer for
new Azure customers,
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which provide them $200 of
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Azure credit for
the first 30 days,
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plus 12 months off
most popular Azure services.
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So we are talking about,
VMs, SQL database, Cosmos DB,
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along with that
they get access to
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25 plus on these free services.
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So it's a great offer
for someone who
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wants to start learning Azure.
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>> So if you're a hobbyist or
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a student or you're
just trying it out for
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your business and you
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feel like you might
need a couple of months.
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Kicking the tires,
having a site up.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Having a VM up in
the cloud and running it.
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>> Yeah. So it's a perfect offer
for someone like that.
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>> I do need a credit card,
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will it be charged?
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>> So, all you
need to sign up for
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an Azure free account is
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a phone number
and a credit card,
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along with that you need
Microsoft account as well.
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>> All right.
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>> But the reason we need
phone number and credit card
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is to validate your identity,
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it's for identity verification.
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We really want to ensure
that you are a real, agile,
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Azure user are not a bot or
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someone who is trying
to exploit the offer.
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But we will not charge
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your credit card
unless you give us
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an explicit consent by upgrading
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your subscription to a
Pay-as you-go subscription.
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>> And is this available
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pretty much everywhere
in the world?
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>> So it is available in
all the countries where
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Azure is available
commercially except
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Southern clouds which is U.S.
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government and
Azure and Chromium.
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>> Sure. Yeah I
don't think the U.S.
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government needs a free trial.
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>> That's it.
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>> That's cool.
So I signed up for
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the free trial but you said
that there's new things
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where I get free access to
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Cosmos DB and they have
a free tier as well.
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Do I get free websites
and free customer things?
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>> That's correct.
So, what you get with
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the new Azure free account
is the credit itself,
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all three tiers which
you used to get,
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you'll still get all those
three tiers of services.
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And along with that, there
were certain services
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like VLBMs did
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not have a free tier or storage
did not have a free tier.
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So what we're doing
is we are providing
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select quantity
of these services
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as well for free for 12 months.
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>> Okay. So for 12 months I
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get that for free
in that free tier.
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This is just for
news signups though,
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if you already have an Azure
account this is not for you.
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>> Yeah this is not for
you. This is just for
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new Azure customers
but if you are
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an existing Azure
customer as you said,
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we have free tier off
a lot of services.
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25 plus all these free services
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that have free tier
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which you can use without
paying for those services.
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>> Just out of curiosity and
I don't mean to push this
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too hard but like what
do I get for free?
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Can I do real work, can
I do interesting work,
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can I have a small blog
that I can do for free?
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>> So you can do
a lot of stuff, right?
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For example I'll give you
an example, Virtual Machine.
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The latest series of
Virtual Machines that we
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launched was the B-Series,
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the " Burstable" skill.
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And we are offering
"Burstable" B1 VM
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for free with a free account.
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Oh, okay.
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>> If you are talking
about SQL database we
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offer SE or instance
SQL database.
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You can do a lot with this
SQL database instance, right.
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So we are offering
real connies which
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you can use to do
real work on Azure,
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do your POCs on
Azure, and what not.
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>> That's interesting.
You're right, your proofs
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of concept exactly.
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The idea that "Burstable"
skill is interesting
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because I have used a number of
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small Virtual Machines but
they're basically small
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for a very minimal work but
they're slow all the time.
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>> That's right.
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>> With the new B-Series
I can burst.
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>> That's right.
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>> Get a little bit
of extra power that
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I need to do the burst of
work that I want to do.
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I've got for example a small
newsletter that I send out,
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it only bursts a couple
of hours a day,
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a couple of times a month.
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>> That's correct.
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>> That's a perfect example.
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>> So you can keep on
accumulating your credit and
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then borrow it whenever
you need or more or borrow.
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>> What's the experience
like when we sign up?
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>> Sure. So, it's very
easy to get started,
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all you have to do is
go to Azure.com/free.
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That's a landing page
for Azure free account.
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>> Cool.
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>> You'll find
all the information
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on free account
what is included,
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offer domes, FAQs et cetera.
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If you're ready to
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start you can simply
click on start free.
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Once you do that, you would need
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a Microsoft account to do sign
up for Azure free account.
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If you don't have
one you can easily
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create one, it's
absolutely free.
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In my case I have
already created Microsoft
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account so let me ask you
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quickly login to
my Microsoft account.
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>> And a lot of people who are
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watching may not realize you may
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already have
a Microsoft account,
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you may use it for
your Hotmail you may log
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in to your Xbox with
this or if you're
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a hobbyist or
a student you probably
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have a Microsoft account
already that you don't realize.
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>> So once you have logged
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in with your Microsoft account,
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you will be taken to
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the sign up page for
Azure free account,
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and it's a pretty
standard sign up page.
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As I said earlier,
all you need is
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a phone number and credit card.
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And the reason we ask
for phone number and
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credit card is to validate
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your identity, that's
pretty much it.
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We would not charge your
credit card unless you give us
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an explicit consent by
upgrading to pay-as-you go.
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>> Okay.
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>> So once you have filled
this form and clicked "Submit",
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click "Sign Up" you'll have
your Azure free account.
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So I'm not going to go through
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the entire sign up form
for the sake of time,
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but as soon as you do that,
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you have your
Azure free account.
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Now once you have signed
up for Azure free account,
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you can then go to
the Azure portal
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to start using
these free services.
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So in my case I've already
signed up for a free account,
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so I'll give you a demo of
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how the experience work
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in Azure portal for
free account users.
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>> Okay. So this user who's
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logged in right now is
a real free account user?
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>> That's right.
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>> You don't have
special powers.
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>> No I don't have
any special powers.
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This is a regular
Azure free account.
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>> Excellent.
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>> So there are
two things that I
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want to show specifically.
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One is, how you
can easily discover
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and create free services
on the Azure portal.
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And the second thing
that I want to show is,
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once you've started
using free services,
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once you've started
consuming your Azure credit,
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how can you keep a tab of it?
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How much services
I'm I consuming?
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So this is all left?
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All that information, right?
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So let's start
with the first one.
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So I'll click on "More
Services", I'll type,
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free in the search box,
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I'll click on "Free Services" so
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this is new Azure
free services page.
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And on this page,
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this is a single bin of
glass where you can find
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all the services which are
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available for free with
your Azure free account.
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Mine has two sections,
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the first section is
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services which are
free for 12 months.
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As I said these are some of the
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most popular Azure services.
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So we're offering 750 hours
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of B1S Windows Virtual Machine,
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750 hours of B1S
Linux Virtual Machine,
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SQL database, Cosmos DB.
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>> Wow.
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>> So these are
the services which you get
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for free for 12 months.
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Then if I scroll down this
is the Always free services,
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these are services
which are always
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free. As you've said, right?
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Free tier of services
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which are always
free for all users.
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Currently this link
is pointing to
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azure.com but in the future,
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we'll have all of these services
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listed on this page as well.
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>> So this will be?
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>> Right.
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>> Not to put too
fine a pointer,
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but I can use,
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it's not saying I can do
just this for 12 months,
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I can do all of these,
each one of them,
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I sign up for everything and
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play with all these
things together.
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>> That's correct. So
you get all of this.
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>> That's pretty slick.
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>> So, another cool thing
about this page is that
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along which weight
all the services
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which are a little bit for free,
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we have these "Create" buttons.
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And what we've have done is,
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for some of the services,
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we have create
custom templates or
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custom experience which make
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it very easy for you to
create this free services.
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For example if you
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want to create a free
windows Virtual Machine,
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you have to select
the right region
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where the B-Series is available,
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you have to select
the right size of VM,
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you have to select
the right manage desk,
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it's not that difficult,
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but what we have done is we have
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customized the experience which
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very easy for you as a new user
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to create these free services.
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So I'll give an example of that.
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So let's take an example,
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we want to create
a free Windows Virtual Machine.
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>> All right.
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>> Click on "Create" here.
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That will take me to a
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costume create experience
for free Virtual Machine.
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As you can see,
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it saying free account
Virtual Machine.
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And I just have to enter
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six or seven fields
to create a VM.
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>> That's really
exciting because I have
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noticed that when I was first
getting charged with Azure,
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when I make
a new Virtual Machine,
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there are more options here
and a huge pricing section.
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>> That's correct.
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>> And I don't want
to accidentally pick
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the wrong thing,
I'm just browsing.
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>> That's correct. So
this custom experience
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makes it super easy.
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All the variables that you
have to select to create
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a free VM are preselected
in this custom template.
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So let me quickly
create a free VM.
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So the VM name I
can select an image,
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if I'm provisioning or creating
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a Window Server or I can
select a Window Server image.
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If I want to provision
of Linux VM as I said,
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we also offer
the Linux VM as well.
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So if I want to
select a Linux VM,
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if I want to create a Linux VM I
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can select a Linux image.
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In this case because we are
provisioning a Windows VM,
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I'll select a Windows image,
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it's Windows Server
2016 DataCenter.
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I'll pick a location
where I want to
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deploy this VM, "Username",
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"Password", "Confirm
the password".
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Next, I would select
the subscription
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which got created when I
signed up for free account,
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It's the free
trial subscription.
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I'll create a new
"Resource Group".
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The location for
the resource group.
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I'll click on "Okay" and
run some validations,
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and once the
validations are done,
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I'll click on "Okay".
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And just like that I have
free Windows Virtual Machine.
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>> And this Virtual Machine,
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I can go into the billing
section and I can see that
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the predictive line that shows
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me how much it's going to
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spend and how much
it's going to cost.
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>> So it takes
some time for the usage
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to flow through
the billing system.
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But eventually you
will see that in
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the billing data of
the subscription blade.
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And I'll give a demo
of that blade as well.
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>> That's yeah,
that's fantastic.
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Because we don't want to be,
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we the free people,
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don't want you to think
that we're being cheap,
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we're just being careful
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and we're being thoughtful
because we really
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want to understand
how to effectively
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evaluate Azure until we're
prepared to start paying.
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>> That's right.
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>> So that was
a free service page,
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where you can discover
and create free services.
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The next thing I
want to show you is,
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the cost management functionality
for free account users.
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So I'll click on
"Cost Management"
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I'll click on "Subscriptions".
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I'll choose the subscription
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which got created when I
signed up for free account,
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It's Free Trial in my case.
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And this is the
subscription blade which
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has all the information
on costs and usage.
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So the top, at the very
top there's a banner which
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basically shows you when
your free credit is expiring,
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in my case it is
expiring in six days.
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>> All right. And
that's very clear.
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>> That's very clear, right?
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Then below that, you have
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very vital information
about the subscription like,
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the subscription name,
billing period, et cetera.
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Now if I scroll down,
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this is the "Cost
by Resource Chart".
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So this chart will
have information about
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all the services which I
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have used which are
not included for free.
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So any service for example
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if I spin up a service which
is not included for free,
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the service will show up here.
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And I can check which services
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are consuming my Azure credit.
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>> Nice.
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>> So that's the information
that you can gather
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it from this chart.
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Currently because
it's a new account,
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I don't have any usage.
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It's not showing a lot of
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services here but as I
start using free services,
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all these services will
start showing up here.
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>> Right within
a day or two it will
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start flowing
through the system.
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>> The next chart
is the "Spending
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Rate and Forecast Chart".
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This is a pretty cool chart
so it shows you your credit,
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what is the credit that you
have available right now?
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How much of that credit
have you used so far?
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So it's showing me that I
haven't used anything so I
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have my entire $200 intact.
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>> Nice.
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>> And it also shows you
the forecast it spent.
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So at the end of
the month, how much
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of my credit will I consume.
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>> And this is super useful
and I love this chart.
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And when it starts seeing
the forecast as spent,
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I immediately pin that
to my home screen.
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And I would encourage everyone
to do that to really get
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a sense of not just how
much money you're spending,
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but how Azure uses your money
in its compute resources.
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>> That's correct. And
if I scroll down further,
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this is the chart
which gives you
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information about your usage
on free services, right?
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So the first column on
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this chart is essentially
the service itself,
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the middle name of
the service name.
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The second column
is usage and limit.
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So it tells you, how much
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of the quantity is included
for free for that service.
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>> Okay.
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>> How much of that free
quantity have I consumed?
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In my case as I said, right?
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This is a new account
I haven't used
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a lot so it's showing zero.
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But as you start
consuming services,
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you'll see the numbers here.
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And we also show that
information in the status bar,
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so that's status bar
will start filling.
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And the last column is status.
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So basically based
on your pattern,
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it will use an algorithm to
predict whether you are going
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to exceed the limit
for that free service.
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>> That's so useful, I mean,
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it can't be any clearer.
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People are always afraid
they're going to wake up
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and then it's going
to cost them $1,000.
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>> That's right.
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>> You've got a progress bar,
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you've got a used and left and
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you've got even a prediction in
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plain English or plain
whatever language you speak.
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>> That's right.
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>> Likely to exceed,
unlikely to exceed.
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It couldn't be clearer and
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honestly it's just trying
to be very transparent
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about how you're going to
spend your money in Azure.
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>> That's right.
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>> That's pretty slick.
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>> That's correct. So using
this page you can easily keep
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a tab of your Azure usage
and ensure that you
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are optimizing the benefits
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that you get for
the free account.
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>> This is pretty cool. Is this
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in preview or is just now?
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>> This is live right
now. As a new user you can
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go in and you can sign up
for an Azure free account.
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>> So if you happen to bump
into Azure Friday or you have
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a family member or a friend or
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a co-worker or
someone who hasn't
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had a great experience in Azure,
00:13:17.905 --> 00:13:20.835
they can sign up
now azure.com/free
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>> Yeah.
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>> Fantastic.
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I am learning all about
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the new Azure free account
here on Azure Friday.